J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Gondorf, Looking Upstream; Kobern, Looking Downstream; Kobern, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gondorf, Looking Upstream; Kobern, Looking Downstream; Kobern, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Gondorf, Looking Upstream; Kobern, Looking Downstream; Kobern, Looking Upstream 1839
D28300
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 5 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Gondorf’ top left and ‘Evenburg or Altenburg’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Now merged to form Kobern-Gondorf, the towns of Kobern and Gondorf are represented here in a series of slight sketches. Situated at opposite sides of the Moselle to each other, the towns were defended by three fortifications: the Schloss Liebieg at Gondorf (identifiable by its crow-stepped gable) and the Oberburg and Niederburg (Upper and Lower Castles) at Kobern.1 Next to two of the castles Turner has inscribed ‘Gondorf’ and ‘Evenburg or Altenburg’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
‘Schloss Liebieg’, ‘Oberburg’, and ‘Niederburg’, Kobern-Gondorf, http://www.koberngondorf.de:8080/Moritz2/?page=1690, accessed 8 August 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Gondorf, Looking Upstream; Kobern, Looking Downstream; Kobern, Looking Upstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-gondorf-looking-upstream-kobern-looking-downstream-kobern-r1150581, accessed 26 April 2024.